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The Old Gate

In the Middle Ages the vast majority of European cities had walls around them. This was partly for defensive (1) __but another factor was the need to keep out anyone regarded as undesirable, like people with contagious (2) __. The Old City of London gates were all (3) __by the end of the 18th century. The last of London's gates was removed a century ago, but by a (4) __ of luck, it was never destroyed.

This gate is, in (5) __fact, not called a gate at all; its name is Temple Bar, and it marked the (6) __between the Old City of London and Westminster. In 1878 the Council of London took the Bar down, numbered the stones and put the gate in (7) __ because its design was (8) __ it was expensive to (9) __ from raboqa.com and it was blocking the traffic.

The Temple Bar Trust was (10) __ in the 1970's with the intention of returning the gate home. The aim of the trust is the (11) __ of the nation's architectural heritage.

Transporting the gate will mean physically pulling it (12) __, stone by stone, removing and rebuilding it near St Paul's Cathedral. Most of the facade of the gate will probably be (13)__, though there is a good (14) __ that the basic structure will be sound. The hardest (15) __ of all, however, will be to recreate the statues of the monarchs that once stood on top of the gate.

詞匯：

contagious / k?n'teid??s / adj. 傳染性的，會蔓延的 demolish / di'm?li? / vt.拆除，破壞

stroke / str?uk / n. 打擊 preservation / ,prez?'vei??n / n. 保存，保留

boundary / 'baund?ri / n. 范圍，分界線 cathedral / k?'θi:dr?l / n. 保留，保存

注釋:

1. mark the boundary between ... and... : ……在……和……兩者之間劃定界限

2. there is a good chance that... : 很有可能發生某事，有……的機會

練習:

1. A) grounds B) reasons C) causes D) purposes

2. A) injuries B) symptoms C) colds D) diseases

3. A) devoted B) demolished C) declared D) decreased

4. A) stroke B) wave C) hit D) blow

5. A) real B) contemporary C) actual

6. A) borders B) part C) boundary D) current

7. A) storage B) store C) storing D) line

8. A) unrealistic B) unfashionable C) unavailable D) stock

9. A) maintain B) afford C) repair D) unbearable

10. A) set out B} set up C) set off D) fix

11. A) preservation B) reservation C) conservation D) set back

12. A) up B) over C) on D) down

13. A) replaced B) substituted C) exchanged D) overtaken

14. A) capacity B) opportunity C) possibility D) chance

15 A) requirement B) job C) necessity D) obligation

答案與題解:

1. B A 選項 grounds 意為"理由，基礎" ;C 選項 causes 意為"原因" ; D 選項 purposes 意為"目的;意志"。根據句意"城墻一方面是為了防御外敵……" for 為介詞，表目的。for defensive reasons，為了防御的原因。故選 B。

2. D 考查固定搭配。A 選項 injuries 意為"傷害，受傷";B 選項 symptoms 意為"癥狀";C 選項colds 意為"感冒";D 選項 contagious diseases 意為"傳染病"。根據句意應選 D。

3. B 此句句意為"倫敦古城的城門，均在 18 世紀末被拆毀。"A 選項 devoted 意為"獻身于……";B 選項，demolished 意為"拆毀，破壞"，與句意相符;C 選項 declared 意為"公然的,公開宣布的";D 選項 decreased 意為"減少"。故選民

4. A 考查固定搭配 a stroke of luck。

5. C 考查固定搭配in actual fact,為固定搭配，意思是"事實上"。等于 actually或 as a matter of fact 。

6. C 此句句意為"它的名字叫圣殿酒吧區，是倫敦古城與威斯敏斯特的分界線。"A 選項 borders 意為"邊界，邊緣地區";B 選項 part 意為"部分"D 選項 line 意為"路線，排";而 C 選項boundary 意為"兩地的分界線"，與句意相符。故選 C。

7. A 此句句意為"1878 年，倫敦議會將其推倒，給石頭編了號，并將它們儲藏。" A 選項storage 意為"存儲，倉庫"，符'合句意;B 選項 store 意為"商店，儲各";C 選項 storing 意為"儲存，保管";D 選項 stock 意為"股份，股票" in storage 為固定搭配。故選 A。

8. B 此句句意為"城門的設計老套，維修費用昂貴，而且堵塞交通。"A 選項 unrealistic 意為 "不切實際的"C 選項 unavailable 意為"難以獲得的"D 選項 unbearable 意為"難以忍受的"，均與句意不符 ;B 選項 unfashionable 意為"不時髦的，老套的"。故選 B。

9. A 此句意為"……維修費用昂貴，并且堵塞交通。"afford 意為"支付得起";repair 意為 "修";fix 意為"修理，安裝" 。(對建筑物的)維修保持意為 maintain。故選 A

10. B 此句句意為"在..20 世紀 70 年代，最初為了恢復城門，建立了圣殿酒吧區信托基金，目的 是保存國家的建筑遺產。" set 叩意為"建立，開業"; set out 意為"動身，陳列";set off 意為 "啟程，使爆炸";set back 意為"推遲，使受挫"。故選 B。

11. A 此句句意為"目的是保存國家的建筑遺產。" A 選項 preservation 意為"(古物，建筑)的 保存"，與句意相符 ;B 選項 reservation 意為"預約，保留";C 選項 conservation ，多用于"(環境的)保存，保護";D 選項 recreation 意為"娛樂，消遣"。故選 A。

12. D 考查介詞搭配。pull up 意為"拔起，阻止" ;pull over 意為"靠岸，開到路邊";pull on 意 為"穿，繼續拉"，只有 D 選項 pull down 意思是"摧毀，推倒"，與句意相符。

13. A 根據上下文，可以排除 C 與 D A 與 B 均有替代的意思，通常，replace...with ... "替換，更換(以舊更新)"，substitute ...for ...替代"之意，不與原物進行比較。

14. D there is a good chance that 意思是"很有可能發生某事，有……的機會"。

15. B 此句句意為"最艱難的工作"the hardest job of all 為常用說法。A 選項 requirement 意為 "要求，必要條件" C 選項 necessity 意為"需要寫 必需品";D 選頂 obligation 意為"義務"。故選 B。

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